Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s electoral promise of a minimum income guarantee scheme is not a silver bullet, but if implemented, it can be a game changer in eliminating poverty in India, co-director of the World Inequality Lab at the Paris School of Economics Lucas Chancel said on Wednesday.Welcoming...

Leaving behind Maharashtra, Delhi-NCR has emerged the top FDI destination in the country .The northern and eastern regions are fast emerging as the preferred destination for foreign investors. While traditionally strong destinations such as Maharashtra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu have shown a decline in FDI inflows, regions like...

The report of Niti Aayog will be taken up by the alternative mechanism on disinvestment, headed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.Niti Aayog has been tasked with drawing up a list of non-core assets of various CPSEs, both healthy and sick ones, as a first step towards finance ministry’s...

The WEF said energy systems have globally become less affordable and less environmentally sustainable than they were five years ago.India has moved up two places to rank 76th on a global energy transition index, which has ranked 115 economies on how well they are able to balance energy...